Syllabus and Admin Details for Statistics 511 Section 004

Fall 2015
Instructor:
Prof. John Deely.
Office: Math Sciences (MS) 546
Office Hours: Tues, Thur 1:30-2:20 or see me in the lecture to make an appointment.
Telephone:494 6039
Email jdeely@purdue.edu

Important Note: In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading
percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other
circumstances beyond the instructor’s control. Here are ways to get information about changes in this
course.
 My Stat511 web page
 My email, jdeely@purdue.edu
 My office phone number, 765 494 6039
Course Details:
Text:
This section (Sec 004) will be using a custom 3 hole punch Devore book with Enhanced WebAssign
Homework Card for the 9th edition.. This package is much cheaper for the students:
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences ( ninth edition) by Jay Devore (Cengage
Learning 2015) Devore custom edition with Enhanced WebAssign Access Card ISBN-10: 1-305-74585-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-305-74585-8

If students buy the 3 hole punch book from one of the bookstores it will come with a WebAssign Access Card
which has a code they input, so they do not have to buy anything else. If they do not buy the package from the
bookstore, they can buy access from the WebAssign directly in their homework account, which would also
include an ebook. They just would not have a hard copy.
To get into the roster for your Section of Stat 51100 use the link below
https://www.webassign.net/purdue/login.html

Students have free access to WebAssign for 14 days so they can do their homework until they decide which
way to go.
Lecture Times: Tues, Thur 12:00 noon to 1:15 pm

Class notes: you are strongly advised to take good class notes and to read the text material before coming to
class. The text book contains more material than can be covered in this course so pay particular attention to
the details in the Syllabus which specifies exactly what part of the text will be covered and when. So it will
be helpful if you indicate in your notes the day of the lecture and the material being covered.
WEB site
We will use WebAssign for several activities. There is also a site for data sets at www.cengagebrain.com
(see in your Text in the Preface, p.xiv “Helping Students Learn”) In addition the homepage
www.stat.purdue.edu/~jdeely/ has a link to Stat511 which will contain more information such as
Additional Assignment Information , Data Sets and the Syllabus.

Homework, Quizzes, Tests and Exam

Homework will be assigned weekly .
There will be a number of short quizzes and two tests.
There will be one final exam
All quizzes, tests and the Final Exam will be open book and open notes.
Attendance You are expected to attend Lectures. Random Quizzes will be given to check
attendance.
Grades Your Final Grade will be determined by:
FG  (0.125) HW  (0.125)Q  (0.2) T1  (0.2) T 2  (0.35) F
in which HW means an average percentage for Assignments, Q is an average percentage for the
Quizzes ; T1 and T2 are the two Test percentages; F is the percentage on the Final Exam.
 Subject Material from the Text Fall 2015
I. Description of Samples and Populations TEXT Chap 1
1. Samples and populations, describing a population
2. The visual display of data using histograms
3. Describing data via measures of central tendency and variability---average, medians and standard
deviation., Boxplots
II. Probability TEXT Chap 2
1. Elementary probability
2. Axioms, basic rules
3. Conditional probability, Independence
4. Bayes Theorem
III. Discrete Random Variable TEXT Chap 3
1. Probability Mass Functions
2. Binomial,
3. Hypergeometric
4. Poisson distribution
IV. Continuous Random Variables TEXT Chap 4
1. Probability Density Functions
2. Normal distribution
3. Normal approximation to binomial
4. Exponential and gamma distributions
V. Joint Probability Distributions TEXT Chapter 5
1. Sampling distributions
2. Distribution of mean
3. Central limit theorem
VI. Statistical Inference (Single Sample) TEXT Chapter 7
1. Confidence intervals for Means
2. Confidence intervals for Proportions
3. Bayesian Approach
VII. Hypotheses Testing (Single Sample) TEXT Chapter 8
1. Tests for Means
2. Tests for Proportions
3. Type I and Type II errors
VIII. Two Sample Inference TEXT Chapter 9
1. Tests for two Means
2. Confidence intervals for two Means
3. Paired data
4. Tests for two Proportions
5. Confidence intervals for two Proportions
IX. Comparing the Means of Several Populations TEXT Chapter 10
1. Basic single factor ANOVA
2. Selection rules
3. Bayesian approach
X. Simple Linear regression TEXT Chapter 12
1. Basic model
2. Estimating model parameters
3. Inferences about the slope
4. Predictions
5. Bayesian approach
6. Correlation